Sink your teeth into our digital journal—a collection of dreams, notes, explorations, and meaning-making in the food culture ecosystem, authored & curated by the Food Culture Collective team.
Afro-Feminist Lifeways are a Path to Black Freedom
This piece is an introduction to the forthcoming digital exhibit, Into the Black Femme EcoVerse, created and curated by Digital Culture Fellow, Ugoada Ikoro. She explores how fellow Black womxn in communities across the US today are reimagining their foodways through healing modalities rooted in their heritage and liberation work with the land.
We are Black femmes who honor the cycles of birth and death. We embrace the rhythm of our inner nature, embodying the timeless dance that connects us to all of life. Across generations, we’ve answered the call to nurture the roots of Sankofa—of our freedom, pleasure, and abundance. It continues through us, like threaded silkwebs. Each and everyday, we honor the lifeways that garner our tapestry of our homeward journeys to love, liberation, and Black feminist freedom.
Seed Liberation & Reciprocity this Harvest Season with a Decolonized Playlist for Hungry Ears
This week, as we gather with our beloveds in our homes, in our kitchens, and around our tables, we’re reflecting on how our relationships to food, land, and each other can feed us in truly deep ways beyond just our stomachs. Our stories about these relationships are both reflections of our values and powerful tools for bringing them to life. So this harvest season, we’re grounding in liberatory stories rooted in joy, care, and mutual belonging with the land, waters, and peoples that nourish us.
What’s possible when we collectively embrace the wisdom revealed by apocalypse?
What transformative pathways emerge when we unearth the wisdom revealed by apocalypse? The Latin root of Apocalypse means, “to reveal; to uncover.” Usually, this is interpreted to mean something dreadful is revealed. But what if what's revealed is our inherent wholeness, mutuality, generosity and connection? How might we unearth practices to compost empire and seed more liberatory, thriving futures?
These were some of the questions that Food Culture Collective’s Advisory Council Member, ancestrally-taught chef, writer, and death doula, Yana Gilbuena Babu, brought to the table on July 18th, with Boricuir food justice organizer, writer, farmer and co-founder of Cuir Kitchen Brigade, Lucecita Cruz, and Native Hawaiian Zen Priest and movement strategist, Norma Wong.
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Black Food, Love + Liberation
Black Food, Love & Liberation is an ongoing series curated by our Digital Culture Fellow, Ugoada Ikoro. Each week, Ugo captures stories of joy, beauty, community care, and thriving (beyond surviving) hidden beneath mainstream narratives shaping Black foodways and our relationships to the land.
Around the Table
Our Around The Table series features informal conversations between food workers, thought leaders, elders, organizers, and creatives about emergent insights in food culture. Together, we sink our teeth into the juicy stories, live questions, and critical conversations buzzing in food and culture spaces.
Postcards from 2050
We invited Food Culture Collective community members to imagine forward with us—to a future rooted in care and belonging. Where our food culture is defined by reciprocal relationships and is accountable to the land, water, and people to which we belong. Read their postcards from the future here.
In the Test Kitchen
Dig into this collection of articles and think pieces written by Food Culture Collective staff, community members, and friends, focused on the question—how do we transform our shared food culture?
